Yuri Sardarov

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Last year, three actors from "Chicago Fire"--Yuri Sardarov (pictured), Joe Minoso and Charlie Barnett--lived together in a downtown apartment at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street and decked the whole place out for Christmas. There were blue lights on the ceiling, tacky holiday stickers on the windows, fake snow on the ground and a huge tree, said Sardarov, who plays Otis on the show. Barnett bought adult onesies for the three of them and they wore them around the house the whole time, even when they sat around the tree opening Christmas presents. For the Sardarov family, traditional Russian dishes and sweets such as fruit cake and blintzes are on the table around the holidays at their Northbrook home. "I love being in the kitchen. I¿m not bad [at cooking], but my family is so good they put me to shame," he said. So his parents and grandmother do the cooking while Sardarov and his 13-year-old brother indulge in the food. "They will cook all day. We¿ll sit and eat and have many drinks. My grandfather, who is a well-known jazz guitarist in Russia, he'll bust out the guitar. We're like any other family," Sardarov said.

Last year, three actors from "Chicago Fire"--Yuri Sardarov (pictured), Joe Minoso and Charlie Barnett--lived together in a downtown apartment at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street and decked the whole place out for Christmas. There were blue lights on the ceiling, tacky holiday stickers on the windows, fake snow on the ground and a huge tree, said Sardarov, who plays Otis on the show. Barnett bought adult onesies for the three of them and they wore them around the house the whole time, even when they sat around the tree opening Christmas presents. For the Sardarov family, traditional Russian dishes and sweets such as fruit cake and blintzes are on the table around the holidays at their Northbrook home. "I love being in the kitchen. I¿m not bad [at cooking], but my family is so good they put me to shame," he said. So his parents and grandmother do the cooking while Sardarov and his 13-year-old brother indulge in the food. "They will cook all day. We¿ll sit and eat and have many drinks. My grandfather, who is a well-known jazz guitarist in Russia, he'll bust out the guitar. We're like any other family," Sardarov said. (Timothy Hiatt / Getty Images)

Last year, three actors from "Chicago Fire"--Yuri Sardarov (pictured), Joe Minoso and Charlie Barnett--lived together in a downtown apartment at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street and decked the whole place out for Christmas. There were blue lights on the ceiling, tacky holiday stickers on the windows, fake snow on the ground and a huge tree, said Sardarov, who plays Otis on the show. Barnett bought adult onesies for the three of them and they wore them around the house the whole time, even when they sat around the tree opening Christmas presents. For the Sardarov family, traditional Russian dishes and sweets such as fruit cake and blintzes are on the table around the holidays at their Northbrook home. "I love being in the kitchen. I¿m not bad [at cooking], but my family is so good they put me to shame," he said. So his parents and grandmother do the cooking while Sardarov and his 13-year-old brother indulge in the food. "They will cook all day. We¿ll sit and eat and have many drinks. My grandfather, who is a well-known jazz guitarist in Russia, he'll bust out the guitar. We're like any other family," Sardarov said.